It includes a description of the shared responsibility model, a summary of our control environment, a review of secure design principles, and detailed information about the security and backup considerations related to each part of AWS including the Virtual Private Cloud, EC2, and the Simple Storage Service.

The new AWS Risk and Compliance White Paper covers a number of important topics including (again) the shared responsibility model, additional information about our control environment and how to evaluate it, and detailed information about our certifications and third-party attestations. A section on key compliance issues addresses a number of topics that we are asked about on a regular basis.

The AWS Security team and the AWS Compliance team are complimentary organizations and are responsible for the security infrastructure, practices, and compliance programs described in these white papers. The AWS Security team is headed by our Chief Information Security Officer and is based outside of Washington, DC. Like most parts of AWS, this team is growing and they have a number of open positions: